How to Gain Buy-in: The Key to Successful Employee Development

No matter how good the plan or program, if you can't convince people to support it, you're wasting your time

SFC (Join to see) Always had good results with this maxim —> “If you treat people right they will return the favor.” And of course —> make it fun!

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The Best buy-in comes from soldiers who trust you, like you, are willing to rally around you, and are loyal to you. The soldiers and NCOs knew I cared about them and their families, and I loved them. They also knew I valued them.

Sometimes even if I knew the answer, I would ask the NCOs to help me with planning to involve them. I tried to make the NCOs feel they were important. There were several times NCOs tried to sell me on another course of action. I did not care about rank. If an E-5 had a recommendation and the outcome was no different, I listened to them and admired their passion and rewarded them by adopting their suggestion. I remember one training meeting I was talking with 6 NCOs, they all said I was wrong. What did I do? I smiled and told them they won and raised my arms in the air. lol